View full sizeDaly Advance front page from April 7, 1921. From the Historic Richmond Town Collection. (Staten Island Advance/Irving Silverstein)

View full sizeDespite the Smith-Cosgrove bill of 1921, garbage was transported on barges from other boroughs to be deposited at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island from 1948 to 2001. (Staten Island Advance)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today's historic page is from April 7, 1921. With approval of the Smith-Cosgrove bill, Staten Island expected to be protected from garbage sent here from other counties. They had no inkling that the Fresh Kills landfill would become the future repository for much of the city's trash, from 1948 to 2001.